24 Hours of Spa (motorcycle race)

This article is about the motorcycle race in Belgium. For the sports car race, see Spa 24 Hours.

The 24 Heures de Spa-Francorchamps Motos (previously called 24 Heures de Liège moto) is a motorcycle endurance race held annually since 1971 on the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Francorchamps, Stavelot, Wallonia, Belgium and is part of the Endurance FIM World Championship. In 2024 the race will be run in 8 hours format.^[1]

FIM Endurance World Championship
Venue	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Location	50°26′14″N 5°58′17″E
First race	1971
Duration	24 hours
Previous names	24 Heures de Liège, 8 Heures de Spa (2024)
Most wins (driver)	Christian Lavieille (4) Jacques Luc (4)
Most wins (manufacturer)	Honda (12)

History

The inaugural event took place on August 28 and 29, 1971 on the Zolder circuit. The competition took place on two different circuits:

• from 1971 to 1972: Circuit Zolder;
• from 1973 to 2003 and after 2022: Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.

When the Bol d'Or moved from Bugatti Circuit to Circuit Paul Ricard at the end of 1977, the ACO created the 24 Heures Moto. The race became one of "the classics" of endurance racing along with the 24 Hours of Liège, the 8 Hours Of Suzuka, and the Bol d'Or.

At the end of 2001, the three 24 Hour classic races (Le Mans, Liège and the Bol d'Or) withdrew from the Endurance World Championship to create the Master of Endurance (an Endurance competition consisting on the 3 races that was held between 2002 and 2005). Le Mans and Bol d'Or returned to the Endurance FIM World Championship in 2006, but 24 Hours of Liége didn't while the track had lost FIM homolgation.

After twenty years of interruption, the race returned renamed as 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and as part of the FIM Endurance World Championship calendar with a ten-year contract.^[2]

• 
  Circuit Zolder circuit until 1972
• 
  Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in the version used until 1978
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  Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps after 1979

Winners

24 Hours of Spa winners^[3]

Year	Riders			Bike
	Rider 1	Rider 2	Rider 3
1971	Clive Brown	Nigel Rollason		BSA
1972	Georges Godier	Alain Genoud		Honda
1973	John Williams	Charlie Williams		Honda
1974	Jean-Claude Chemarin	Gérard Debrock		Honda
1975	Roger Ruiz	Christian Huguet		Japauto
1976	Jean-Claude Chemarin	Christian Léon		Honda
1977	Jacques Luc	Pierre Soulas		Honda
1978	Jacques Luc	Jack Buytaert		Honda
1979	Jacques Luc	Jack Buytaert		Honda
1980	Marc Fontan	Hervé Moineau		Honda
1981	Jacques Luc	Pierre-Étienne Samin		Suzuki
1982	Jean-Claude Chemarin	Jacques Cornu	Sergio Pelandini	Kawasaki
1983	Jacques Cornu	Thierry Espié	Didier de Radiguès	Kawasaki
1984	Gérard Coudray	Patrick Igoa	Alex Vieira	Honda
1985	Hervé Moineau	Richard Hubin	Jean-Pierre Oudin	Suzuki
1986	Gérard Coudray	Patrick Igoa	Alex Vieira	Honda
1987	Richard Hubin	Michel Siméon	Michel Simul	Suzuki
1988	Hervé Moineau	Bruno Le Bihan	Thierry Crine	Suzuki
1989	Alex Vieira	Stéphane Mertens	Roger Burnett	Suzuki
1990	Race cancelled
1991	Stéphane Mertens	Dominique Sarron	Christian Lavieille	Suzuki
1992	Terry Rymer	Carl Fogarty	Jehan d'Orgeix	Kawasaki
1993	Steve Manley	Simon Buckmaster	Doug Toland	Kawasaki
1994	Adrien Morillas	Jean-Louis Battistini	Denis Bonoris	Kawasaki
1995	Jean-Michel Mattioli	Stéphane Mertens	Michel Siméon	Honda
1996	Piergiorgio Bontempi	Stéphane Coutelle	Brian Morrison	Kawasaki
1997	Juan-Eric Gomez	Doug Polen	Peter Goddard	Suzuki
1998	Christian Lavieille	Doug Polen	William Costes	Honda
1999	Telmo Pereira	Michel Graziano	Bruno Bonhuil	Suzuki
2000	Jean-Marc Delétang	Fabien Foret	Mark Willis	Yamaha
2001	Christian Lavieille	Brian Morrison	Laurent Brian	Suzuki
2002	Christian Lavieille	Brian Morrison	Laurent Brian	Suzuki
2003	Olivier Four	Sébastien Gimbert	Nicolas Dussauge	Suzuki
race not held
2022[4][5]	Markus Reiterberger	Illia Mykhalchyk	Jeremy Guarnoni	BMW
2023[6]	Niccolò Canepa	Marvin Fritz	Karel Hanika	Yamaha
2024[7]	Niccolò Canepa	Marvin Fritz	Karel Hanika	Yamaha

By manufacturer

Wins	Manufacturer
12	Honda
11	Suzuki
6	Kawasaki
3	Yamaha
1	BMW
	Japauto[8]
	BSA

See also

• FIM Endurance World Championship